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Shakespeare x #OFMD crossover account. #ShakespeareSunday.

Account retired until I decide whether to lock / delete. And by “decide”, I mean “figure out how.”

Certainty is the enemy of unity; certainty is the enemy of tolerance.
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Remember before God, Richard III, King of England, and those who fell at Bosworth Field having kept faith
22 August 1485.
Loyaulté me lie.

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August 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I’ll be closing this account shortly, so this is my last #ofmd x #shakespearesunday post. No drama; I just need to go out and do something more boring instead and I didn’t want to slink off without saying so long and thanks for all the fun.

(New name for the Crew: Gentlefriends?)
August 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Lie where the light foam the sea may beat
Thy grave-stone daily
Timon of Athens IV, 3

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: WATER #ofmd #IzzyHands
2x8 Through my sobs, I can barely type that we are looking at Izzy Hands’ grave.
August 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Love wrought these miracles
Taming of the Shrew V, 1

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: WATER #ofmd
2x3. MerStede and Ed hovering vertically in the bluest of blue oceans, lit by an ethereal light.
August 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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my heart is drown'd with grief,
Whose flood begins to flow within mine eyes
2 Henry VI, III, 1

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: WATER #ofmd #IzzyHands
2x3 A close-up of Izzy’s profile in the brig of the Red Flag. Tears well in his eye.
August 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave
Richard III II, 2

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: WATER#ofmd
2x3 Stede sitting in the cargo hold with what he believes to be Ed’s corpse.
August 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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salt waves fresh in love.
Twelfth Night III, 4

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: WATER#ofmd
2x1 In Stede’s dream, Ed runs towards him through the breaking surf. Gentle waves ripple in the background.
August 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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But ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates.

Merchant of Venice I, 3
#ShakespeareSunday THEME: WATER#ofmd
The crew of the Revenge on the deck. They are laughing, talking, drinking and comradeing. Izzy sits apart.
August 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs
Julius Caesar I, 2

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: JULIUS CAESAR & MEASURE FOR MEASURE. #ofmd
1x5. Izzy with his head between Ed’s legs, trying to free him from the suspension harness.
August 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.
Julius Caesar IV, 3

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: JULIUS CAESAR & MEASURE FOR MEASURE. #ofmd
1x5 Stede comforting poor Ed (who is in the bath) who is overcome with sadness at the fact he is supposed to be murdering Stede.
August 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous
Julius Caesar I, ii

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: JULIUS CAESAR & MEASURE FOR MEASURE. #ofmd
S2 Lucius smoking a roll-up, possibly in 2x5 but I cba to check. He is looking jittery and I would be unsurprised to learn he was plotting against Ed.
August 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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He was my friend, faithful and just to me.
Julius Caesar III, 2

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: JULIUS CAESAR & MEASURE FOR MEASURE. #ofmd
2x8. <sob>. I have no words.
August 3, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
Measure for Measure V, 1

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: JULIUS CAESAR & MEASURE FOR MEASURE. #ofmd
1x7. Stede and Ed toasting each other in brandy after agreeing to be Co-Captains.
August 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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The miserable have no other medicine 
But only hope.
Measure for Measure III, 1

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: JULIUS CAESAR & MEASURE FOR MEASURE. #ofmd
Stede in 2x2 looking miserable as he uses a list of Blackbeard’s crimes to try to work out where Ed might be. An inset of the map he is drawing.
August 3, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Our doubts are traitors, 
And make us lose the good we oft might win 
By fearing to attempt.
Measure for Measure I, 5

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: JULIUS CAESAR & MEASURE FOR MEASURE. #ofmd
Stede Bonnet in 1x9, listening to the poison being fed to him by Chauncey Badminton, panicking and rethinking his decision to run away to China with Ed.
August 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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August 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Not showtime for a few hours, but the best preparation is dressing well. The top I embroidered and which Con and DJ signed and my late mother’s wedding ring, which I wear on big occasions to feel her near me.
August 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Scenes in my living room today as I rehearse my three (3) acts for #TAODP.

Not shown: two teenagers dying of embarrassment.
August 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I love this embroidery pattern that I bought on Etsy from oliviengren.
July 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet
With knaves that smell of sweat
Anthony & Cleopatra I, 4

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: SUMMER HOLIDAYS. #ofmd
A collage of screenshots from 1x8 showing Calico Jack being a rowdy hooligan. One photo shows him eating breakfast. It might even be a breakfast buffet, if Shakespeare hadn’t clearly intended “buffet” in its sense of “to be buffeted by the wind”.
July 27, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Two Gentlemen of Verona I, 1

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: SUMMER HOLIDAYS. #ofmd
Stede in, I think 1x4, remembering when he first arrived on the Revenge. He is on deck, carrying a single bag and looking very small and alone. The start of a new adventure.
July 27, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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What, are you packing, sirrah?
Cymbeline III, 4

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: SUMMER HOLIDAYS. #ofmd #izzyhands
A collage of 3 photos from 1x4 when Izzy is packing a dinghy to leave the Revenge having earlier said some things he regrets.
July 27, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Why, this is very midsummer madness.
Twelfth Night III, 4

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: SUMMER HOLIDAYS. #ofmd #cononeill

Thank you to @darkdancer72.bsky.social and her family for playing with me this week.
Con O’Neill as Jim Caxton from Midsomer Murders. For some reason, I’ve managed to save the same image twice 😉. The episode is called “Schooled in Murder” but we all know it should be called “Lethal Weapon: Watch Out for the Cheese.”
July 27, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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The sun doth burn my face: I must remove.
Venus and Adonis

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: SUMMER HOLIDAYS. #ofmd
Stede in 1x8. The crew have all gone to the shore with Calico Jack and Stede is looking his usual dapper self. He is holding a parasol as protection from the sun.
July 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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But, indeed, sir, we make holiday,
Julius Caesar I, 1

#ShakespeareSunday THEME: SUMMER HOLIDAYS. #ofmd
Olu in 1x2. He is holding a drink - some kind of rum, pineapple thing served in a half coconut shell. He is talking to Stede and Pete who are in a cage (out of shot). They are having a vacation but his is going rather better than theirs.
July 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM